No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace, As I have seen in one autumnal face.

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More than kisses, letters mingle souls.

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All mankind is of one Author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated.

John Donne · Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, 17

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“No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace, As I have seen in one autumnal face.”

“More than kisses, letters mingle souls.”

“O my America! my new-found land.”

“All mankind is of one Author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated.”

“'I don't want him,' said Rabbit. 'But it's always useful to know where a friend-and-relation is, whether you want him or whether you don't.'”

“She moves a goddess, and she looks a queen.”

“O, it sets my heart a-clickin' like the tickin' of a clock, When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock.”